Jamey Sheridan Quotes
I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.
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Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.
